What Other Steps Could You Take?

You should also consider whether there are any aspects of your workplace which may not currently be inclusive, for example changing rooms, bathrooms, or social facilities. Consideration should be given to making changes to any aspects of the workplace that aren’t currently inclusive.

Toilets and changing rooms are potential problem areas for employers. Guidance produced by the Government Equalities Office in 2015 on transgender staff states:

‘A trans person should be free to select the facilities appropriate to the gender in which they present. For example, when a trans person starts to live in their acquired gender role on a full-time basis they should be afforded the right to use the facilities appropriate to the acquired gender role.’

Guidance published by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission suggests that one possibility is to use gender-neutral toilets. These would be used alongside male and female toilets. Employers can then direct trans people to use the gender-neutral toilets.